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streamofthesky posted...

And take note, this isn't some regulation on the kosher/halal butchers, or making them register. This is a proposal to make the customers register with the government to buy the meat. Cause that needs to be tracked by the government for...reasons. And it only applies to Jews and Muslims. Christian, Atheist, or any other person who happens to like buying kosher/halal meat, per the proposal, does not have to register. It only applies to those two groups.

Doesn't *anybody* who buys it for religious reasons have to register? If they're not buying for religious reasons, they don't need to register. Plus if you are ultimately going to *only* allow the religious to buy it down the road, you'd have to handle it at the consumer level not the seller level (same shit for medical marijuana -- just having the seller register when you're only allowing people to buy it for medicinal use makes no fucking sense). It sounds like the end-goal here is to reduce the amount of meat produced in this way.

streamofthesky posted...

Thankfully the EU will shut this down if the rest of the Austrian government fails to, but fuck Austria.

So basically you're judging the entire nation based entirely on the whims of one party from that nation whose laws probably won't pass anyway and whose policy you *suspect* has a potential long-term application in the very distant future? Do you realize how stupid that sounds? It'd be like hating American because you suspect a provision in a healthcare policy may lead to death panels.
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